Maria Wirries
Biography
Maria Wirries (she/they) is a Performer, Composer, Lyricist, and Self-Proclaimed Swamp Witch. Select credits include: Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway and First National Tour), Kinky Boots (Off Broadway Revival), and Penelope or How the Odyssey Was Really Written (Off Broadway). She is currently in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and has developed her own original musicals at the Goodspeed Opera House, the Paramount Theater, and Penn State University. She is a proud Penn State and Young Arts Alum, and says a huge thank you to her childhood voice teacher Alan for gifting her a love of Sondheim and his work from an early age; “children will listen.”
Credits
Dear Evan Hansen, Kinky Boots
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